That by an Appointment ot the Right Honourable JOHN Lord GRAY Sheriff Principal ofthe Sheriffdom^ of ForFs'sß, aud af the Defire of feveral Hritors, Wed^ nefday the ?? Day of July current is fixed for a Meeting,, of- the Heritors and Freeholders of that County in the Court-houfe

LONDON. Yefterday an Exprefs arrived from his Majefty, with a free Pardon for Cast. Clark, upon which an Order was fent from their Excellencies the Lords Julliccs ro the She- riffs of this City, to Ist him at Liberty, upon his giving Bail to appear, and plead the laid Pardon ; a

From the St. Jameses Eve nin? Poft, Aug.' 2. By Letters from Milan we hear, that the Emprefs Queen has ordered a general Survey tobe madetfj Lauds of that Duchy; the Defign of which tt J prehend, is to faddle them with new Taxes' fa J) defray the Expences of an approaching War ?

Pater fon. Alex. Paterfon. "PEEBLES RACES. On Thurfdav the 30th Auguft next, a PURSE of FIF- TEEN GUINEAS, given by the Town of Peebles,wiil be run for upon the Muir of Peebles, the beft of three Heats, by any Horfe, Mare or Gelding, to carry ten Stone Weight Saddle and Bridle i

By a private Letter from Petersburg, dated May 7, we are informed, that every Body is very impatient to learn how the Intimation given to the Pruflian Minifter will be- received at the Court of Berlin. Sunday at Noon died, at his Houfe in College-Hill, of a rnalgnant Fever, the

frtm the London Gazette, May 22. Berlin, May 23. rHE Marquis de Valori, the late French Minilter to this Court, fet out from hence on the 17th inftant for Paris, by the Way I of Hanover, where 'tis faid he wiil (lay I. fome Time. he, May 29, A Draught is ordered to be made of |s

By Letters from Italy dated the ryth inftant, we learn, that the Frigate which lately lauded the Duke of Hamilton a t-Genoa, had onboard a large Sum in Coin and Bullion, for the Merchants of that City, and the Director of the Spanifh Poft Office: And that the faid X>ire£tor has

?? o»r A?/2 arrived a French Mail, fm the Whitehall Evening Pojf, Feb. z. Berlin, Jan. 21. * V Lord Tyrconnel, nominated Envoy Ex- \ J traordinary of the Moll Christian King to this y/| Court Is expected here the Beginning of A- *^pril.. ■I^^H ,

Garden, Grafs, Tree EBBwer Seeds' that laft Seafon has produced, the moft fctthluch he has tried and found good, and hereby ob- ?? to infure them all fo. r -H-ere is alfo to be fold at the above PLce, a great Col- fcfiion of all -tne good Sorts of Fruit and Foreft Trees, Powerin

Edinburgh, Thurfday, November 8, 17*0. Noma 4604.